The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Astronomers from around the world have made a groundbreaking discovery within the Milky Way Galaxy that promises to offer ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

It’s nice to think the Milky Way “still has a long, planet-forming future ahead of it.” Galaxy merger mayhem Astronomers witness galaxy mergers happening throughout all of space and time.

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

The Milky Way galaxy consists of a central disk, made up of spiraling arms filled with stars and planets, as well as an outer halo of distant stars.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide in 4.5 billion years NASA Goddard They said heat from the merger helped create the halo-like configuration we see today, and that a large supply ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...